Valve today announced that 2K Boston and 2K Australia's highly anticipated first person shooter BioShock is now available for pre-order on Steam for the price of $49.95 in the US and $54.95 in Europe. Steam users can now begin downloading the game's assets, which will be unlocked and activated on the release date of the retail version: August 21 in North America and August 24 in Europe. BioShock is a first person shooter (FPS) that lets you do things never before possible in the genre: turn everything into a weapon, biologically mod your body with plasmids, hack devices and systems, upgrade your weapons and craft new ammo variants. According to Irrational Games (now known as 2K Boston and 2K Australia), BioShock is a revolution in the shooter genre that will forever change the expectations for the FPS. You can visit the official BioShock website here.

For that dman same price i can GET a CD + install straight. No downloads.

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Yeah...In my case, I would rather not have a CD (I like DVDs, less install discs). Moreover, I would rather never have another CD, I love what Steam does.

*Picture removed. Next time use thumbnails or shrink the picture.*

I can have my games anywhere on any computer without having to haul CDs/DVDs around (not to mention the times where...Damn I forgot my CD key.

That's around 12 years of games that I would rather not have on CD due to space. Not only that, but CDs like most of my Blizzard games become scratched over time, and then I have to buy new ones. More money and hassel than I ever want to deal with.